Earth' Recent CLimate Spiral 2.0

[Leonardo17]

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   In general this push to produce more and to always be more is also set to stop at some point. In many countries population will have to stagnate and then start to decrease after a given level. This should give us plenty of room to rethink our models of production, consumption, transportation etc.
 
    For instance is it not simply better to consume the stuff that are produced locally, by local farmers and consume them hours or days after they have been picked up?
 
   I’m asking this because I saw how some Israeli agricultural engineers are messing up with tomatoes so that they still look and taste good up to a month after they have been picked up. Here I have unmodified “pink” tomatoes. They are not that expensive, their shapes can be a little twisted etc. but I know these are better.
 
    But that doesn’t work for all crops. I think apples for instance need to be a little protected so they end up being good looking and without any hole in them. And I also saw mandarins that had turned green because of whatever chemical or hormone has been used on them.
 
   And concerning meat, I think happy animals that are being raised in the open air are much tastier than the ones who are grown indoors.
 
   And on eggs and dairy products: Some people are looking for ways to replace these with insects for instance because the Methane emission that are related to the production of these animals are very high. Also plastic is simply the best packaging method for dairy products. So people are looking for ways to decrease the consumption of these products.
 
   Finally, too many people means too many carbon footprint. Some people say that if we were 4 Billion instead of 8 on this planet, than we would not need to be so vigilant about everything as we have to today.
 
   Still things are moving in the right direction. In the second half of the 90’s people started to sue tobacco companies because they were lying about their products and creating fake science to support the view that “there is no proof cigarettes create cancer”. In continental Europe it still took us a decade or so to move young people away from tobacco products. And today the same Industry is trying to gain new customers by promoting E-cigarettes among young people.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Ma..._Agreement
 
In the end, social interest did triumph over corporate interest and I can see that a similar trend is happening with Big-Oil companies now:
 
 https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-sides-y...50150.html
 
The only thing is that we need to move much faster now. Also, the Fossil fuel industry is much bigger then the tobacco industry. So they may be tempted to do too little too late, but there might be a point in which even they are going to realize that they are going to die If they keep doing things the way they always did.
 
See: in the 90’s Big-Oil refused to admit Climate Change existed. And the main argument was that action against climate change would cost the economy a lot and that the effects of climate change would not disrupt the economy a lot. This was the main rhetoric. I was / we were described as “climate alarmists”.
 
In the most recent COP’s oil companies are being invited. That’s because nobody can keep paying the bills of so many disasters and say this is economically sustainable.

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